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One of the Internet’s most infamous trolls has finally been banned from Twitter

August 18, 2019 at 7:38 p.m.

Chuck Johnson, the far-right mega-troll who doxed two New York Times reporters and argued that homosexuality caused the Amtrak derailment, may at last be off Twitter — this time for...

The complete, true story of Charlie Charlie, the ‘demonic’ teen game overtaking the Internet

August 21, 2019 at 5:40 p.m.

If you are one of those crotchety people who believe the kids these days are somehow less inspired than generations before, then I come bearing new evidence: Even their superstitions...

.A mouse and Google mousepad are shown at Google's New York office in November 2006.

How to see everything you’ve ever Googled (if you’re so brave)

August 18, 2019 at 7:17 p.m.

You probably don't remember what you Googled 10 minutes ago, let alone the myriad inane and fleeting things you've searched since the engine's beginnings. But unless you're browsing in incognito...

How 25 years of Photoshop changed the way we see reality

June 15, 2018 at 11:11 p.m.

There could be no better commemoration of Photoshop's 25th anniversary than the trove of unretouched Beyoncé photos that leaked online Wednesday. The photos appeared on a fan site called Beyoncé...

Spanish shoeshiner Javier Castano (L) shines shoes on February 16, 2015 in Malaga. Authorities in Brazil have got hold of a valuable Twitter account for publicizing next year's Olympic Games, after a humble Spanish shoeshine man surrendered the rights to it for free.

Meet the Spanish shoeshine guy who secretly guards Twitter’s greatest real estate

August 21, 2019 at 5:29 p.m.

Officially, Javier Castaño is a 50-year-old shoeshine guy at a cafe in Malaga, Spain. But in his off hours, he serves as the secret guardian of some of Twitter's most...

Actor Ryan Gosling arrives at Warner Bros. Pictures' "Gangster Squad" premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love

June 16, 2018 at 2:52 a.m.

One of the core premises of Invisible Boyfriend, the wildly viral new service that invents a boyfriend to deceive your pestering family and friends, is that the user will not,...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his page recently that he has vowed to read a book every other week in 2015. Zuckerberg created a "Year in Book" page and urged his friends to join him in the project. As of Sunday afternoon, it had more than 89,000 likes.

Mark Zuckerberg’s book club is off to a pretty lame start

May 9, 2019 at 5:07 p.m.

When Mark Zuckerberg invited 30 million people to his brand-new book club on Jan. 2, the Internet reacted hysterically: Sales of his first book pick, Moisés Naím's "The End of...

5 stupidly easy, science-based resolutions for people who spend too much time online

June 16, 2018 at 6:17 a.m.

We are entering the month of Facebook deletions, of "lifehacks," of "digital detoxes" designed to cure whatever social-media hangover you suffer from the year before. Per the latest holiday poll...

Rape threats, then no response: What it was like to be a woman on Twitter in 2014

May 11, 2019 at 2:01 a.m.

When someone calls you an unprintable, gender-based slur on Twitter and invites you to "get raped," you presume — or at least, I presumed — that the network would do...

Self-harm blogs pose problems and opportunities

May 14, 2019 at 12:14 a.m.

Self-harm blogs shelter in a dark, desperate corner of the Internet that few of us will ever see. But 14-year-old Anouschka, a baby-faced blogger, has lived here for months, collecting...

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